The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12

slavery and hunger or for freedom and breads
Ii you decide for the latter, then do not delay a
moment; then, people TO arms! This must be
| your motto Think Of the heroes whose blood
has fortified the road to progress, liberty and
humanity, and strive to become worthy oil
| them. YOUR BROTHERS.
Neebe and other notables of the |. A. A
took horses, and in person scattered the cir
cular broadcast, not failing to leave copies
with the rank and file of the International
EARNED sections" gathering in Greifs Hall,
| "a West Lake street. That the circular
gave the impulse to the action of the armed
sections at this Monday night meeting, and
inspired the adoption of
THE PLAN OF BoMB-THRowING
agreed upon IS apparent from the fact that
| its contents were first fully discussed. Then
the complete detailed plan of the particular
method of inaugurating the wholesale muir
der for which they originally organized was
formally considered and adopted, the time
for the slaughter being left for the -ArGeiter
Zeitung to designate by publishing the
signal word ''ruhe" (peace) This latter
feature was the work Of Adolph Fischer,
who had come to the meeting straight
| from the Arbeiter Zeitung, where he had
been assisting Spies and Schwab That
| Fischer was carrying out the plans of his
| superiors appears more clearly from the
! circumstance that it was he who
l MANEUNRED THE ARMED SECIIONS'
out of their idea Of holding the Hay
market meeting in the morning instead of
at night, as Spies and the other leaders had
| decided.
| A darker picture is not to be found in his
tory than this spectacle of four-score muir
| derous conspirators in the wretched saloon,
basement, remorselessly plotting the mas
| sacre that occurred not hundred yards
distant, before another midnight passed.
| LII. N,fN 10 81, g
the Haymarket bomb, was among the
eighty or more assassins who composed this
horrible meeting. Though adjournment
did not come till long after IL 1t was not
z o'clock next morning, Tuesday, when
| Louis Lingg, member of this identical
EARNED section," opened the chest of dyna-
mite that had lain untouched in his lodgings
since four days before. Under his expert
| directions, six of the men who attended the
murder meeting of the previous night,
| quickly set to work then and there filling
! globuar shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was also
at work getting out the handbills calling
the Haymarket mass meeting, The hand
bills last words were: "Workingmen,
arm yourselves and appear in full forcem
What Spies, Schwab and the other leaders
were doing that day may be partly Inferred
| from the
BURNING APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE
and calls ITO Arms!' thatappeared in their
newspaper organs that evening. 'Ruhe,"
penned by Spies own hand stared out of
the Arbeiter Zeitung. After the papers
were off and their editors had swallowed a
hasty supper it is known that Spies, Par
sons Schwab, Fielden, Fischer, and other
ruling spirits, mostly members of the self
same armed sections" that held the Greif's
Hall conclave, went into close session at the
International headquarters in the ArbetteF
Zettung building, where reports by messen-
ger and telephone were received as the
moments sped.
Lingg's crew of bomb-malIers were still
assiduousy at work. For some reason he
himself was unable to remain with them
all the time, and the evening found him
cnrsing their slow progress. 1t was some
time after 7:3O p. m.-the hour mentioned
for the Haymarket meeting to begin
when Lingg put into little trunk what
bombs were ready-some fifty or sixty
and started with his burden for the ap-
pointed rendezvous, an Anarchists saloon
near by known as Neff's Hall, IS Clybourn
avenue He was met on the way by mes
senger who had come to hurry him along
The trunk was left open in passage way
of the saloon, and without more ado men
began dropping in quietly, alone or in
couples,
PoCKETING A BOMB OR TWO
each and vanishing into the darkness. This
celebrity may have somewhat Modified
Lingg, but his delay was not the only
stumbling block of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the An
archist leaders estimated would be gathered
together in the Haynarket. This was not
an extravagant expectation, when 1900
had been so easily massed near Nc
Cormick's. But fear of further riot
ing kept pretty much everybody
at home except about 1000
men, nearly all Of them Enthusiastically An
archistS Undoubtedly the sInallness of the
crowd made the Anarchist leaders pause
1.-The social revolution" backed by mob of
workmen, y, 900 strong, had changed to
prospective fight between Anarchists alone
on one side and the police in force on the
other 1t was evident to the most casual
spectator in the Haymarket that hitch
existed somewhere, and apparently the
meetings. managers were all completely at
sea.
The great dim-hghted square was deci-
dedly uncanny scene, with its scattered
groups Of gesticulating, trampish- looking
occupants lining the sidewalks and pouring
in and out of the rickety surrounding sa-
looms. The Arbeiter Zeitung conference of
leaders had been prolonged one, and when
at last Spies, Parsons Fielden and the rest
reached the Haymarket Square they seemed
BENT ON A WAITING GAME.
1t win probably never be known whether
| the evident hesitancy was caused by the de
! lay OF Lingg's confederates, a proposed aban-
donment of the outbreak, or the hope that
the police would attack and attempt to dis
| perse the dangerous-looking crowd before
the speaking should begin, thus relieving
the leaders from appearing to incite riot
Finally, an hour and half late, Spies,
| Parsons and Fielden addressed the crowd,
i'll the order named, nsing a wagon for their
rostrum. The first two, in comparison with
their usual harangues, were tame as a pair
of doves. Gradually the crowd thinned
out No police interfered, and the chance
the reds" had waited months for was
nearly gone. The meeting would be
laughing stock to the public, the leaders
would be discredited by even their own ilk,
and
THE RUHE-SIGNAL
would mean not the social revolution
begin, but the International Association
| collapsed
Fielden was worthy the occasion He
! had been in the background on the wagon
with Schnauhelt the bomb-thrower, Spies
and other directing minds, who saw plainly
| that something must be done, and quickly.
! Therefore, when his turn came, Fielden
stepped boldly TO the front. describing all
! pretense of mildness. He electrified the
| rabble at once The crowd swayed excited
! " backward and forward in the narrow